Trope: The Chosen OnePublisher: St. Martin’s PressPublished: November 24, 2020 Breen and her mother don’t exactly get along. Breen has been following her mother’s guidance on how to live her life. Breen suffers from anxiety and doesn’t own a car because she can not afford one, but has a great best friend named Marco. One… Continue reading Recap of The Awakening by Nora Roberts
Summary Wesson is still years from becoming a man when an immense darkness stirs within his core. The sinister power bursts free during a confrontation with an old enemy, and Wesson’s tranquil life is left in tatters. Forced to flee a murderous mob, Wesson stumbles onto a tumultuous path where he must confront the destructive… Continue reading Review: Mage of No Renown
Preptober is upon us. It is the month of October and is used to prepare for November’s National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo as it is more commonly known, or NaNo for short. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write a story of at least 50,000 words. If you write 50,000 words, you are said… Continue reading Get Ready This Preptober
Witch13 by Patrick Delaney I read this months ago after obtaining an early copy from NetGalley. This is out now and is such a good horror. I’m still jumping at shadows, but then horror never was one of my favorite genres. It’s too good at scaring me. Witch You Well by Colleen Cross Witch You… Continue reading 11 Books to Read this Autumn
Books Read I only finished one book in August which was The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter by Michael J. Sullivan. I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds. It was an interesting and entertaining story. New Books! August was my birthday month. Thanks to this I received many new books to my digital… Continue reading August Wrap Up
Summary The world of magick and the world of man have long been estranged from one another. But some can walk between the two—including Breen Siobhan Kelly. She has just returned to Talamh, with her friend, Marco, who’s dazzled and disoriented by this realm—a place filled with dragons and faeries and mermaids (but no WiFi,… Continue reading Review: The Becoming
August didn't go to plan, so here's hoping September goes better.
This is a contemporary fantasy. Things get interesting almost immediately as our main character, Breen, finds her mother has been hiding something very important from her. The father she thought had left them long ago, had left her an account with now a few million dollars for her. Her life to that point was full of stress as she had large school loans, and was pinching pennies trying to keep up with her bills. And things only get more and more interesting as the story goes on.
July didn't go so well. I have higher hopes for August since I won't be spreading myself so thin. I'm focusing on reading, and blogging. I'm waiting to hear back on the next course enrollment for work, but I will have 6 months to complete it, so I can go slow with it in August… Continue reading August TBR
July was a bit busy; busier than a usual month for me with some of the stuff going on at work, and the challenges I attempted. Spoiler alert, I think I failed at each of them. Let's run through and see if I managed to succeed at anything this month or if I took too… Continue reading July Wrap Up